Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku Kenkyujo

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Denso Corporation

University of Pennsylvania

Hisayoshi Fujikawa

Yasunori Taga

Koji Noda

Shizuo Tokito

Sadaharu Suga

Makoto Satsuki

Hideo Iizuka

Atsushi Miura

Natsuko Ishida

Makoto Fujiwara

Tadashi Hattori

Masahiko Ishii

Nobuei Ito

Kazuhiro Inoguchi

Nader Engheta

Yutaka Hattori

Chihaya Adachi

Yasuhiko Takeda

Yoshio Taniguchi

Takeshi Ohwaki

Tomoya Uchida

Akira Shinpo

Toshiki Koyama

Kunio Akedo

Tomoyasu Saitou

Yoshifumi Kato

Makio Iida

Hisato Takeuchi

Kenji Kondo

Makoto Kimura

Ichiharu Kondo

Takanori Murasaki

Osamu Takenaka

Kazushige Kojima

Satoshi Nakagawa

Takao Yoneyama

Yasuhiko Sawaki

Karl-Heinz Weinfurtner

Natsuko Sonoda

Katsuji Yamashita

Kojiro Tachi

Double groove diffraction gratings are used in combination with various types of photoelectrodes including dye-sensitized and organic photoelectrodes to increase absorption efficiency as well as to provide one or more of a variety of functions including transparency and reflectivity.

Solar cell with double groove diffraction grating

A solar cell structure using either a dye-sensitized or organic absorber is provided with a diffraction grating on at least one side to enhance the travel of first order diffraction components through the photo sensitive material. A two-sided cell uses diffraction gratings both top and bottom wherein the periodic diffraction elements of one grating are shifted by one-quarter of the grating period relative to the other.

Solar cell assembly with diffraction gratings

A light switch (or valve) made up of two mutually inverted, substantially identical diffraction gratings with a liquid medium therebetween, arranged to allow the grating substrates to be shifted laterally relative to one another so as to align and mis-align the grating elements. When aligned, incident-polarized light passes through the switch and when misaligned, light does not pass through the switch but is reflected.

Optical light switch having two internally located diffraction gratings separated by liquid medium

An acousto-optic laser beam scanner of improved scanning angle scope is provided by introducing a controllable compound acoustic waveform into a light transmissive body wherein at least binary and binary diffraction grating patterns of both positive and negative sense can be introduced into the body, the period of the waveform determining the refraction angle magnitude and the order of the pulses determining the refraction angle direction.

Acousto-optic scanner

A barrier film formed on top of a substrate, a barrier film formed so as to cover a functional element region fabricated on top of a substrate, or a barrier film formed on both a substrate and a functional element region, wherein the barrier film includes at least one layer of a silicon nitride film formed by laminating two or more silicon nitride layers having different Si/N composition ratios.

Barrier film and method of producing barrier film

The objectives of this invention are to extend the range of choosing materials to use in the preparation of photopolymerizable compositions by providing a novel organic compound which absorbs a visible light; or to provide an orgamc material which is useful as host compound in organic electroluminescent devices, as well as its uses: The objectives are attainable by providing an aromatic tertiary amine compound bearing within the same molecule one or more specific atomic groups, a luminescent agent directed to use in organic electroluminescent devices comprising it, and an organic electroluminescent device using such amine compound, as well as its uses.

Amine compound and uses thereof

A method for producing a coumarin compound represented by Formula 1, which comprises a step of reacting a coumarin compound represented by Formula 1 with a compound having an aldehyde group and an activated methylene group; luminous agents for organic EL elements and organic EL elements which all comprise the coumarin compound; and displaying panels and information displaying apparatuses using the organic EL elements:&#xf8;(Z)m&#x2003;&#x2003;Formula 1wherein in Formula 1, &#xf8; is an aromatic ring, heterocycle, or a combination thereof, each Z is the same or a different coumarin group represented by Formula 2; and m is an integer of two or more; 

Coumarin compound

This invention has an objective to improve durability at elevated temperature in organic electroluminescent devices using coumarin derivatives as dopant in a luminescent layer. This invention attains the above objective by providing in the organic electroluminescent devices formed by laminating an anode, a hole injection layer, a hole transportation layer, a luminescent layer, an electron transportation layer and a cathode in this order, the luminescent layer which comprises as dopant the green light-emitting coumarin derivative and hole- and electron-transporting substances as host; said coumarin derivative consisting of a plurality of coumarin groups bound to an aromatic ring, heterocycle, or any combination thereof, and exhibiting a glass transition point of 150&#xb0; C. or higher or a melting point of 297&#xb0; C. or higher.

Organic electroluminescent device

4-Cyanocoumarin derivatives which have a distinct sensitivity to visible light, distinct luminescent ability, and satisfactory applicability for photochemical polymerization, dye lasers, and organic electroluminescent elements. Since most of the derivatives have a fluorescent maximum wavelength of 600 to 650 nm, particularly, 610 to 630 nm, they are extremely useful as luminescent agents for organic EL elements which emit visible light in a red-color region, and can be quite useful as luminescent agents in organic EL elements and laser-active substances in dye lasers, as well as luminous bodies as lighting sources for lighting devices, and information displays for visually displaying information.

4-cyanocoumarin derivatives and uses thereof

An organic electroluminescent (EL) device which uses, as a luminescence-assisting agent, a novel coumarin derivative with a specific structure. The coumarin derivative effectively accelerates in such an organic EL device the transfer of excited energy in a host compound to a guest compound. Thus, the coumarin derivative affords the organic EL device which is superior in a color purity, luminescent efficiency and life expectancy when used in combination with appropriate host and guest compounds.

Organic electroluminescent element

In a laminate product formed by an organic member and/or an inorganic member, high strength adhesion between the organic member and the inorganic member is achieved by providing an adhesion layer which includes amorphous carbon nitride (a-CNx:H) particularly between the organic member and the inorganic member. Further, in order to protect a laminate product formed by an organic member and/or an inorganic member, for example, an organic electronic element including an organic compound layer, such as an organic electroluminescence element, a protective film including at least amorphous carbon nitride and a protective layer having a laminate structure formed by sandwiching a vapor deposition inorganic film between plasma polymerized films are used. Thus, a protective film which is optimum to an organic electronic element, having high bending stress resistance, high shielding effect against moisture and oxygen existing in the air, and excellent resistance to high temperature and high humidity can be provided.

Laminating product including adhesion layer and laminate product including protective film

An organic electroluminescent (EL) device which contains a novel coumarin derivative composed of a coumarin ring, a naphthalene ring with one or more hydrocarbon groups, and a five-membered hetero ring condensed with the naphthalene ring so as to give an electronic resonance through the coumarin and naphthalene rings. The coumarin derivative emits a visible luminescence with a satisfactory color purity, which consistently continues over a long period of time even at an elevated temperature when used in such an organic device.

Organic electroluminescence device

An organic EL element has an anode, a cathode, and one or more organic compound layers sandwiched between the anode and cathode, wherein at least one layer of said organic compound layers includes an organic compound denoted by chemical formula (1), which is more specifically denoted by chemical formulas (2)-(5). By introducing desired substituents at R -R , these compounds can be made to demonstrate hole transport function, emissive function, electron transport function, or a combination of those functions. Due to its tendency to be structurally non-planar, the organic compound does not crystallize easily, and has a high glass transition temperature. Use of such a compound in an organic EL element enhances element life.

An optical resonator type organic electroluminescent element has a multilayered film mirror , a transparent electrode , an electron hole transportation layer and a luminescent layer configuring an organic layer, and a metallic electrode mirror , formed on a glass substrate . The optical resonator type organic electroluminescent element amplifies a specific wavelength (especially, in a range of about 30 nm toward a shorter wavelength side from a luminescence peak wavelength of the organic layer) in luminescence light by a minute optical resonator, which comprises the multilayered film mirror and the metallic electrode mirror . It is determined that the minute optical resonator has an optical length L which is twice as long as a resonance wavelength, the organic layer has a thickness of 100 nm or more, and the transparent electrode has a thickness of 50 nm or more or a thickness so to have a sheet resistance of 30 &OHgr;/&square; or less. Thus, the transparent electrode can be prevented from generating heat even when a large current is caused to flow into it, and the element characteristics can be reliably prevented from being deteriorated. Moreover, the reliability of this element can be improved because the organic layer containing the luminescent layer has a sufficient thickness.

Optical resonator type organic electroluminescent element

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Hisayoshi Fujikawa